… but I Can’t Place the Face
Read: James 1:22-25
Are you ever surprised by what you see in the mirror?
I know I am – especially since I stopped wearing glasses a couple of years ago.
Photographs are even more problematic. They can show me what I look like from an angle or point of view that I could never have on my own – and they can be even more surprising than the mirror, if you ask me.
“Is that really what I look like?” I’ve thought that many times as I looked through someone else’s pictures.
James tells us that if we’re not serious about our faith, we’re like someone who looks in the mirror and forgets what he saw once he goes away. Apparently I’m guilty of that, from a physical mirror standpoint, anyway.
What I think James is really getting at, though, is that we are all created in God’s image, and the Bible acts as the mirror to reveal what we really look like, not what we would like to think we do.
It doesn’t really matter much what my hair looks like (or doesn’t, if you know what I mean). It’s much more important that I remember I’m supposed to look like my Father. As David might put it, I’m supposed to live and love like Jesus.
Prayer: Father, help me to remember that I’m supposed to reflect Your Light, Your Grace, Your Love so that when people see me, they give praise to You. May the Holy Spirit work in me to make me more like Jesus every day. In His blessed Name, Amen
Charlie van Becelaere
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